BarCampNYC Wrap-up

As I mentioned previously, I attended BarCampNYC this weekend and had a great time. I did two full presentations – both of which were quite successful.

Presentation 1: Hot Demo Session (11am, Sunday)
I started out with a quick overview of my company, Juniper Bay, what I do (programming, entrepreneur) and where I’m looking to go (have my own company running by the time I graduate).

I then did a quick overview and demo of ideaShrub: Real-time Idea Collaboration. The web site managed to die while I was doing the demo, so that kind of fell through (unfortunately). ideaShrub is still in a closed beta, and I am still actively developing on it. I’m planning on making a public release ‘soon’.

I then announced a brand new product: Feed Pile: Feed Sharing for Everyone. The premise for the site is very similar to SuprGlu, but is targeted more towards aggregating for your friends/clubs/family and sharing with them. It supports a bunch of neat features: No accounts, OPML, and Autodiscovery. It’s super-simple to use – give it a try!

Finally, I announced my second new release of the evening: jQuery: New Wave Javascript. In a nutshell, this code revolutionizes the way you can get Javascript to interact with HTML – it really is an amazing set of code, and I’ve dumped a lot of time and effort into getting it right. I’m working on the documentation for the site, right now – which should be ready within the next couple days.

Presentation 2: Subverting Social Networks (4:45pm, Sunday)
I gave this particular presentation with Eric Skiff – we were planning on giving similar presentations and decided to merge our efforts, to save time and effort. The reception to the talk seemed to be overwelmingly positive – and really opened the eyes of a lot of people.

Eric released the source code to his MySpace Friends Adder, so if you’re interested in checking out some of the code, head on over there.

Additionally, I’ve posted the slides that we used for the presentation. They may seem rather sparten – but that’s because we talked a lot more then we read. If you’re interested in the subject matter, feel free to comment or send us an email.

Some people have posted photos of this particular presentation to Flickr, here’s one and another.

Heya John
Just wanted to say again how great it was to meet you and present together. I’ve been thinking a lot about jQuery and some of the projects you demoed. Drop me an email – there’s some interesting things brewing post barcamp.

John,
I missed all your presentations but the last one (Subverting Social Networks), and I quite liked what you and Eric presented. Very nice work. The numbers and percentages that Eric mentioned really surprised me.

Hi Kris – I was, originally, going to use JSelect, but all the domain names were taken already. I then did a search before I decided to call the project jQuery, saw your project, and also saw that it hadn’t been updated since “October 26, 2004: JQuery 3.1.3”. So, I assumed it was defunct. Ironically, it appears as if you’ve started development on it, again – once again causing a clash in names.

You are right JQuery (the browser) is “dormant” I only spent a minimal effort on making it run under the latest version of Eclipse. However, I certainly don’t consider it “defunct” just yet even though development on it is minimal.

Anyhow… it looks like your jQuery script library is catching on in popularity. Congrats! Looks like a cool piece of work.